Xmas Advent Calender Day 5

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien's epic legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings.

The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels created by Feanor, the most gifted of the High Elves. When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within an iron crown in the impenetrable fortress of Angband, Feanor and his kindred took up arms against the gods and waged a long and terrible war to recover them.

This is the story of the heroism of the Elves and Men in the First Age of Middle-earth, the death of Glaurung, the Worm of Morgoth, at the hands of Turin and the foundations of the world and its people before the great events recorded in The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.